WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, dir. Antanas JASENKA

The 87th season is the last for the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf". We invite you to take the opportunity to see the final performances.

Author of the idea and actress — Neringa BULOTAITĖ

Playwright — Audra BARANAUSKAITĖ

Director — Antanas JASENKA

Set designer — Giedrė BRAZYTĖ

Composers — Antanas JASENKA

Video projection author — Džiugas KATINAS

Assistant director — Bartė LIAGAITĖ

I found her, Virginia Woolf, or more precisely, her novel "Mrs. Dalloway", probably driven by a hunger to create. This happened a long time ago, almost a decade ago, and since then, the idea of creating a play on the theme of Virginia Woolf has never left me. Such is my strange fate in the Theatre (I keep trying to ask myself – am I really in the right place?) – to survive, I had to provide work for myself. The roles offered in the theatre are crumbs, and I am too curious, too impatient to wait for that something I dreamed of. I look around and see crowds of colleagues like me who, throughout their careers, get only a few serious roles.

However, our romance with Virginia Woolf lasted a long time. So many attempts were made to overcome this material, so many people were tried to be infected with this idea... So many sticks were received from Fate... It remains to be amazed at my own determination – do "thoughts really materialize"?

The author is important to me because she showed her treasures and even gave me the key to how to open and use them. I think it is difficult to read this writer's works without knowledge about her – "the secrets of my soul, experiences are written in my works". That's what happened to me with her "Diaries", found during a tour in Saint Petersburg. That's when the journey towards her began.

Virginia Woolf is important just because she is among the top hundred best writers in the world. And if her crystal-clear, deeply felt, vibrating "stream of consciousness" resonates with the reader's consciousness – it might happen as it did to me. It will simply be hard to break free.

Neringa Bulotaitė

The creation of the play was partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture